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Greg Puciato, who has released both his critically acclaimed debut and sophomore solo albums in the short span of two years, has set a December 20 release date for his inaugural live album, “11/11/22 Los Angeles”.
“You don’t get many first shows,” says Puciato of his November 11 outing at Los Angele…

SALIVA reunited with its original singer Josey Scott for a one-off appearance on September 11 at this year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival at the Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia. Scott performed three songs with the group at the event, which also saw SALIVA play with its singer of the p…

New for 2022 Charvel Pro-Mod model with Sin City finish.The Pro-Mod Series continues upon Charvel’s storied legacy of innovative excellence in high-performance guitar design, offering modern players the latest technology and top-notch features. An ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing, the Limited Edition Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M boasts scorching sound and unrivaled feel and performance. Next-level style is also here with an adventurous Sin City Sparkle finish, with matching headstock with a black Charvel logo and chrome hardware.Key Features:Alder bodyBolt-on maple neck with graphite reinforcementUnique Charvel Back Neck Shape 12”-16” radius maple fingerboard with rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 & Seymour Duncan ‘59 SH-1N pickups Three-way blade pickup selector, volume control with coil splits, and no-load tone controlFloyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking tremolo bridge systemHeel mount truss rod adjustment wheel Color matched headstock Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR MThe Pro-Mod Series continues upon Charvel’s storied legacy of innovative excellence in high-performance guitar design, offering modern players the latest technology and top-notch features. An ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing, the Limited Edition Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M offers next–level style with an adventurous Sin City Sparkle finish and matching headstock with a black Charvel logo and chrome hardware. The alder body is coupled with a graphite-reinforced bolt-on maple speed neck with comfortably rolled fingerboard edges. The 12”-16” compound radius maple fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets and a heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel for quick and convenient neck relief tweaks. High-output Seymour Duncan JB and Seymour Duncan ’59 humbucking pickups are directly mounted to the body, cranking out a high-octane rock ‘n’ roll tone with plenty of sweet overtones. The volume control features push/pull coil splitting for even more tonal variations, while the no-load tone control operates as a standard tone control from positions one through nine and is removed from the circuit at position ten for a transparent sound that lets the full natural voice of the guitar shine through. A Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking tremolo bridge system allows for an aggressive dive bomb without sacrificing tuning stability. Available in Sin City Sparkle.For more information, please visit charvel.com.New for 2022 Charvel Pro-Mod Models

“What I love the most about it is the magic and the lore,” says Rick Mitarotonda, discussing his passion for jamming. “It’s a rabbit hole, and you can go as deep as you want. And you never really reach the end of it. It speaks to that magical dream quality, the way the shows travel to these different places.”As guitarist and vocalist for Goose, Mitarotonda has spent his time in the improvisational trenches. Founded in 2014 in Norwalk, Connecticut, the band—which also includes guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist Peter Anspach, bassist Trevor Weeks, drummer Ben Atkind, and percussionist Jeff Arevalo—has ascended in the jam-band scene. Like other groups in the genre, the quintet has built their following on their performances, where they dive deep into improvisational jams. In 2019, they got their first taste of widespread success, when the video of their set at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, Pennsylvania, racked up hundreds of thousands of views.Goose – Dripfield (Official Music Video)“The thing about this genre is you don’t bat a thousand, whatsoever,” Mitarotonda continues. “It’s not feasible. You can’t be ‘on’ every night when you’re improvising in a very intense and constant way. But when it’s there, when the magic strikes, there’s nothing like it.”On their third full-length studio album, Dripfield, Goose channel their vibrant live energy and transforms it into a new iteration of their sound. This time around, they headed into the studio with exploratory ears to collaborate with producer D. James Goodwin, whose influence largely shaped the sonics of the record.“We wanted to find a producer who was on the same wavelength, but also was going to take our music to a different place sonically.” —Peter AnspachDripfield is addictive. The band’s stellar musicianship, infectious enthusiasm, and songwriting, which bursts with funk but is woven together with indie rock threads, form a joyous syzygy that demands repetition. The title track sets a cosmic stage, with an arpeggiated synthesizer backed by a simple, powerful drum pattern, which leads into a sweeping, reverb-laden vocal. “Arrow” shifts seamlessly between a pumping, horn-driven groove and softer, atmospheric passages, while “Moonrise” takes on a more traditional acoustic-ballad format. The album radiates influences from across the more creative ends of rock, including My Morning Jacket, the Grateful Dead, Fleet Foxes, and a bit of Pink Floyd. But mixed with the band’s improvisational language, it becomes a sound all their own.In the wake of the release of their 2021 studio album, Shenanigans Nite Club, the band was feeling a bit drained. The production process had been long, taking several years to complete. Despite how it captures the band’s live dynamic, there was a lot that went into it behind the scenes to achieve that effect. “Shenanigans is very much a jam-band record,” says Mitarotonda. “But there’s a real irony to that record, in that I spent an absurd amount of hours editing and tinkering with it.”Understandably, Goose was ready to find a new approach for their next album. As Anspach shares, they were thinking that collaborating with a producer might be the solution. “I was watching that Taylor Swift documentary [Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions] where she worked on those folkier albums, and you see the collaborations going on in the studio that allowed her to get to that place,” Anspach says. “There’s a lot of interesting parallels there between a lot of our favorite albums. We wanted to find a producer who was on the same wavelength, but also was going to take our music to a different place sonically.”After talking to a few different producers, Goose connected with D. James Goodwin, whose credits include Bob Weir, Devo, Kaki King, and Murder by Death. Creative trust was established almost immediately. “The first conversation we had with Dan, I was like, ‘Oh, this is the guy,’” says Mitarotonda. “I was very much at a point where I felt like I didn’t have the right ideas to break us out of the box. You establish a box and then you become claustrophobic in it. And he was the right person to basically light the box on fire in the studio.”Rick Mitarotonda’s GearGuitarsPRS Hollowbody II PiezoFender Eric Johnson StratocasterAmplifierMesa/Boogie Express 5:50 50-watt 2×12 comboStrings & PicksD’Addario NYXL (.010 sets)Dawg Mandolin Pick by David GrismanEffectsTC Helicon Play Electric vocal and guitar effects processorTC Electronic PolyTuneDunlop Cry BabyDigiTech Whammy 5Mu-Tron Micro-Tron IVStrymon OB.1 CompressorLove Pedal Eternity overdriveMXR Carbon Copy DeluxeStrymon Deco Tape Saturation & DoubletrackerMXR Analog ChorusStrymon El CapistanStrymon TimeLineStrymon NightSkyStrymon FlintTC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper“We went back and forth with him, sending him a bunch of live recordings of the songs,” Anspach elaborates. “As he was going through, he was telling us, ‘I see a way into that song,’ or, ‘I don’t really see a way into this one.’ He was looking at it through the lens of, ‘How can I reconceptualize this song and put it in an interesting style that would take it to a new place.’ He ended up coming back like, ‘This is what the strongest 10 songs are; this should be an album.’”Once they hit the studio, the band took a new approach to much of that material, experimenting with new arrangements and instrumentation under Goodwin’s guidance. “He had a lot of ideas about just crafting the things and pushing them in different directions,” says Mitarotonda, “which was really exciting for us.”One song that went through a significant shift is the seven-minute blues-funk jammer “Hot Tea.” “When we play it live, it’s fast, disco funk. And he was like, ‘I can’t listen to that for eight minutes straight. I just can’t do it. We have to slow it down,’” says Anspach, laughing. “But we had an open mind. And as soon as we heard the drum sounds coming through, we were like, ‘Yeah, this is legit.’Rig Rundown: Goose’s Peter Anspach and Rick MitarotondaGoose tracked the song, then did a full-band overdub on top “doing different things. At one point he [Goodwin] was like, ‘Everybody play this rhythm,’” Anspach describes, clapping out the idea. “We played it through the whole track on our different instruments, and then he kept the clavichord and a cowbell for various parts and got rid of the rest.”“I think he was actively trying to subvert the typical jam-band song,” adds Mitarotonda. “If you listen to the way we play ‘Arrow’ live—and we still do play it live that way because it works, it’s fun—it sounds like a jam-band song. And he heard that song for the first time, and I think all he heard was its clothes. He wasn’t interested in it at first, and then he listened to it more, and then I guess heard the song within the clothes and became interested in it. There’s that section in 7/4, and he had the idea of pursuing the Afrobeat, horn-driven thing. Dripfield doesn’t sound like a jam-band record—it’s not like what we do live. But at the same time, there was a lot of improvising in the studio in a different way, which was a lot of fun.”“You can’t be ‘on’ every night when you’re improvising in a very intense and constant way.” —Rick MitarotondaBoth guitarists take different approaches to their gear, and particularly how they apply effects. Mitarotonda plays his PRS Hollowbody II Piezo through a Mesa/Boogie Express 5:50 50-watt 2×12 combo and two pedalboards, but says, “Often I don’t have a lot of patience for gear. I see the effects almost as a way to open up new doors improvising, but sometimes it feels like a crutch. Sometimes [during a jam], when I feel like I’m hitting a wall, I’m like, ‘Kick on an effect; maybe that’ll juice things up.’ Then I think, ‘No, figure it out. Keep trying to find something that is unique musically instead of just falling back on effects because you can.“But that’s not exclusively true,” he acknowledges. “It’s a different means of exploration than just searching for things musically. It makes me think of Radiohead, where so much of what makes up the substance of that band is sonics: searching and discovering strange instruments and sounds and crafting songs around that, as opposed to songs being driven purely by melody and harmony and lyrics. I see them as different pursuits.”Peter Anspach’s GearGuitarsSuhr Mateus Asato Signature ClassicFender American Vintage ’62 StratocasterCustom T-style thinline built by Goose percussionist Jeff ArevaloAmplifiersFender ’64 Custom Deluxe ReverbStrings & PicksD’Addario NYXL (.010 sets)D’Addario 1mm (medium/heavy)EffectsTC Electronic PolyTune 2Dunlop Cry BabyKeeley Compressor PlusChase Bliss MoodMoog Moogerfooger MF-101Electro-Harmonix Small StoneIbanez TS9 w/Analog Man modAnalog Man King of ToneChase Bliss Tonal RecallStrymon TimeLineStrymon FlintChase Bliss Dark WorldAnspach, who plays a Suhr Mateus Asato Signature Classic with a humbucker bridge pickup through a Fender ’64 Custom Deluxe Reverb, has a different take on effects. “I try to keep my pedalboard as consolidated as possible. But I think I have 10 or 11 stompboxes,” he explains. “Since I got into Tame Impala early on, I’ve had way more effects on my board in the past than I do now,” he elaborates. “But I love delay. I’ve written songs where delay is part of the main riff. Without the delay there, there is no song. Effects are definitely important to my sound.”While each guitarist fills his board with options, neither is overly lavish about their effects, which may help them stay focused on what seems to matter most: being responsive, sensitive collaborators. And over their eight years as a band, Goose have gotten so used to playing with one another that they can communicate through musical cues alone. “One of the coolest parts about this, just from doing it for a bunch of years, is how many things are communicated when we’re improvising without any sort of visual cue at all,” Mitarotonda shares. “The whole tension and release thing is something I’ve wanted for years to figure out. And now it’s really pretty easy: When the downbeat of a new phrase is approaching, I can cue, without looking at anyone, if I want it to resolve or not. It’s fun stuff.”“I think he was actively trying to subvert the typical jam-band song.” —Rick MitarotondaThe best jamming, arguably, happens when the performers are taking risks. Inevitably, however, that involves making mistakes—so what do you do when you play a phrase you’re not happy with? “Be like a goldfish,” says Anspach, laughing. “I have been thinking a lot about this recently. If you mess up and you get in your head about it, you end up affecting the rest of your performance. But if people in the crowd are having a great time, and you look out and you realize this is a really special moment for them, you get over [your mistakes] pretty fast.”Although it’s been a few years since the famous Peach Music Festival video launched Goose into a bigger spotlight, the fame that the guitarists have been experiencing is still fresh, and they agree that it can be existentially jarring. “It’s something to get used to,” says Anspach. “Relationships change with other people in your life, and that’s weird. It’s something I’ve been dealing a lot with recently. It’s incredible and I wouldn’t change it for anything, but life is different. People look at you a different way and you’re a different person to them, but you’re the same person to yourself.”The band’s close dynamic makes a massive difference in coping with those stresses. As Anspach shares, “It definitely helps everything off-stage, dealing with life and whatever else, when you have this brotherhood of people who are able to get on the same page in a musical way. Everything else in life becomes a little bit easier. I can handle anything at that point.”Goose – Hot Tea – 11/19/21 Aspen, COSeen here in Colorado, Goose perform “Hot Tea” in its upbeat disco-funk live form, which underwent significant arrangement changes for its appearance on Dripfield.

PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo joined SEPULTURA onstage last night (Monday, December 12) at Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile to perform the SEPULTURA classic “Arise”. Fan-filmed video of his appearance can be seen below.
SEPULTURA was the support act for the reformed PANTERA at the 17,000-seat mul…

Hear the new split from monstrous Czech death fiends Plague Patrol.
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American rock group UNDEROATH has announced a 2023 U.S. outing — the “Blind Obedience” tour — with special guests PERIPHERY and LOATHE. The 24-city trek kicks off on March 3 at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland, making stops across the U.S. — including in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Las Vegas, N…

PANTERA will be one of eight headliners at next year’s edition of the Blue Ridge Rock Festival, set to take place September 7-10, 2023 in Alton, Virginia.
So far, the following artists have been confirmed for the event:
PANTERA
FLYLEAF
COAL CHAMBER
TAPROOT
COLD
ADEMA
SENSES FAIL
WOE, IS ME
FINGER EL…

LAMB OF GOD and KREATOR have announced MUNICIPAL WASTE as support for their “State Of Unrest 2023” European co-headline tour.
“State Of Unrest” was originally scheduled to take place in 2020, but ended up getting postponed, first to 2021 and then to 2022, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Mos…